2010 Speaker List

Oren Michels

As CEO and Co-founder of Mashery, Oren Michels has led the team responsible for working with over 100 leading brands to power over 10,000 apps created by 50,000+ developers. Oren is a leading evangelist for the API movement in general and has pioneered and chaired the annual Business of APIs conference, now in its 5th year. A frequent speaker at events in both the US and Europe, Oren has taken the stage at events such as Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Gluecon, the GCA/Savvian Summit, Digital Hollywood, eComm, WeMedia, Interop, Dow Jones Venturewire, CTIA, John Battelle's Conversational Marketing Summit, and the Forbes CIO Summit.

Prior to Mashery, Michels served in Executive roles for a number of successful startups including Feedster, WiFinder, Colt HR, and Winebid.com. He also served as President and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company.

Oren began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

Sessions

IT professionals and even cloud providers are split on cloud security: half of them see it as a way to get stronger, more reliable computing that's secured by experts and far from the risk of in-house fraud; others see the potential of loss of control that may increase their organization’s risk profile. Either way, cloud developments call many security assumptions into question. This discussion format panel will give Cloud Providers a chance to offer diverging opinions about the myths and realities of security in the cloud, and how their companies see the future of cloud security developing.